Data centres and AI in Latvia, ranked against Europe and the US

Where Latvia ranks among 31 European countries

Rank 1 = best on the measure's own terms (cheapest, lowest carbon, highest share, most). Each rank is among the European countries with a figure, so the "of" number differs. Latvia is an EU member. Measured

No figure for Latvia on: Data centres' share of electricity; TOP500 supercomputing power; GPU-cluster compute (Epoch AI).

Source: Eurostat nrg_pc_205 · Ember European wholesale prices (via StackPath eu_power_prices) · Ember yearly electricity data (CC BY 4.0) · Eurostat isoc_eb_ai · Eurostat isoc_ai_iaiu · EuroHPC JU (via eu_ai_factories) · Eurostat Comext DS-045409 · EU EED data-centre dashboard (via eu_dc_capacity) · as of 2026-10-12 · Compiled by StackPath

Latvia against the EU-27 average and the US

Same measure, same source family, nearest year. A dash means no comparable figure, not zero. Measured

Source: Eurostat nrg_pc_205, isoc_eb_ai, isoc_ai_iaiu · Ember · EIA via eu_power_prices · LBNL via US DOE (US data-centre share) · Ember Grids for data centres (Europe share) · TOP500 · Epoch AI GPU clusters · World Bank population · as of 2026-10-12 · Compiled by StackPath

Power: 74% clean generation, €0.107/kWh for the largest users

Generation mix in 2025 (Ember); big-user prices exclude VAT (Eurostat band IG, 150 GWh a year or more; Latvia uses band IF, 70–150 GWh, as IG is confidential or empty). Measured

Share of generation by source, 2025. Darker bars are fossil. Demand 7.6 TWh; generation 6.2 TWh; net imports 1.4 TWh. Carbon intensity 135 gCO2e/kWh (EU-27: 211; US: 384).

Wholesale power averaged €98/MWh over 2025-10 to 2026-09 (8th cheapest of 27). Taxes and levies (excluding VAT) were 1.2% of the big-user price in Eurostat's latest year-end comparison.

Source: Ember yearly electricity data (CC BY 4.0) · Eurostat nrg_pc_205 · Ember wholesale prices via eu_power_prices · Compiled by StackPath

Data centres: 1 MW of IT capacity reported to the EU

Electricity share, capacity reported under the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED, the EU's data-centre reporting law), grid requests, restrictions and energy rules. Reported

• Reported to the EU (EED): 1 MW of IT capacity at 1 site for 2023, of an estimated 25 sites that should report; average PUE (power usage effectiveness: total power ÷ IT power) 1.4. Coverage is partial, so this is a floor.

On top of national rules, 7 EU-level rules apply to data centres in every member state (EED reporting, the rating scheme and heat-reuse rules).

Source: EU EED data-centre dashboard · Compiled by StackPath

Compute: no EU AI Factory and no TOP500 system in Latvia

Public AI Factories (EuroHPC), gigafactory bids, the TOP500 supercomputer list and Epoch AI's database of GPU clusters (in H100-equivalents: compute expressed as a number of Nvidia H100 chips). Measured

• EuroHPC role: Antenna (AIFA-LAT, selected, linked to LUMI AI Factory).
• GPU clusters (Epoch AI): none recorded for Latvia (Epoch's database is partial; absence means none recorded).

Source: EuroHPC JU via eu_ai_factories · TOP500 June 2026 · Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0) · StackPath eu_compute (announced clusters) · Compiled by StackPath

AI use: 33% of people used generative AI in 2025 (EU: 33%)

Eurostat's surveys of businesses (10+ employees, any AI technology) and of people aged 16–74 (generative AI tools in the last three months), plus AI labs headquartered here. Measured

Share of businesses with 10 or more employees using at least one AI technology (Eurostat isoc_eb_ai; survey years only). Latvia: 12.2% in 2025, 21st of 28.

Share of people aged 16–74 who used generative AI tools in the three months before the 2025 survey. There is no comparable official US series.

Source: Eurostat isoc_eb_ai · Eurostat isoc_ai_iaiu · StackPath eu_ai_labs (Epoch AI, company releases) · Compiled by StackPath

Servers: 0% of the EU's server imports from outside the EU land in Latvia

Customs flows (Eurostat Comext), not machines installed: ports of entry such as the Netherlands count goods that move on. Measured

• Servers (HS 847150) from outside the EU, 2025-08 to 2026-07: €3.2m, 20th of 27 member states.
• All compute kit (servers, parts, network gear, chips) from outside the EU, last 12 months: €184m (0.2% of the EU total, rank 18); servers up 59% on the previous 12 months.

Source: Eurostat Comext DS-045409 · StackPath eu_hardware_imports · Compiled by StackPath

What our data does not show for Latvia

Gaps, not zeros: a missing row means no public figure we could check, or that the series does not cover this country.

• No official or estimated figure for data centres' share of electricity.
• No published data-centre grid-queue figure.
• No current hyperscaler investment pledge in our tracker.
• No EU AI Factory and no public AI gigafactory bid.
• No Chips Act fab or pilot line in our ledger.
• No AI lab or AI-chip startup in our European tables.

Deeper pages and other countries

Each layer has its own page with the full European table.

• The country scorecard (18 largest markets)
• Electricity prices for data centres
• Data-centre capacity and electricity use
• Data-centre grid queues
• Restrictions and moratoriums
• Data-centre energy rules
• Hyperscaler pledges vs builds
• Sovereign cloud
• Neoclouds
• EU AI Factories and gigafactories
• AI compute in Europe
• Chips Act fabs
• AI chip startups
• European AI labs
• Server imports
• The global AI compute race

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